Who actually takes along a new player and explains stuff to them? The experience is getting 90, survive the nerve-wrecking honor grind with mindless random groups and then entering trade-chat. You need more gear, more XP or no one will take you. Don't know you need Vortex & Beam as Owlkin for RBGs and you are kicked right away after hours of searching. What WoW PvP needs is people that are willing to hand-hold new players and explain the game to them.

AJ wanted to put up freely accesible guides but pretty much no one responded. Skill-Capped has decent videos but things are far from complete around there and basic stuff like setting up the interface or understanding what you need to do in RBGs and what a TC/FC is, what stacks are or how to set up a direct dispel macro for the other healers are missing. People stop because they try, get stomped, get laughed at, called names and get kicked out of groups with no easily accesible way to improve their play.

This is a nice sentiment and I would certainly support an effort on helping new players learn the game. But, I think what you're describing is just the way the world works in all games, it's not a black mark on WoW's community. In any game, there are some people trying to do guides, and they (somewhat) work for the small segment of the new-playerbase that actually looks for guides. But for the much larger portion of the playerbase who just tries PvP in game a few times and uses that experience to decide if PvP is the thing they want to devote time to, I don't think WoW's players are any more or less shitty to new players than any other game. I wish humans were a bit nicer on the whole too, but unless we can solve that problem, I think there's not too much room for progress (at least on our part, the game can certainly be more welcoming to newcomers).

This is a nice sentiment and I would certainly support an effort on helping new players learn the game. But, I think what you're describing is just the way the world works in all games, it's not a black mark on WoW's community. In any game, there are some people trying to do guides, and they (somewhat) work for the small segment of the new-playerbase that actually looks for guides. But for the much larger portion of the playerbase who just tries PvP in game a few times and uses that experience to decide if PvP is the thing they want to devote time to, I don't think WoW's players are any more or less shitty to new players than any other game. I wish humans were a bit nicer on the whole too, but unless we can solve that problem, I think there's not too much room for progress (at least on our part, the game can certainly be more welcoming to newcomers).

Agreed it's not WoW specific. But if you look at teamliquid.net for example there are a lot more explanations to be found and even for WoW - informations on PvE, Questing, PetBattles etc. are a lot more accesible than for PvP. I love what Vanguards is doing when playing with Johnny for example. I think top players doing games with beginners and explaining them the game would be very entertaining, too.

Agreed it's not WoW specific. But if you look at teamliquid.net for example there are a lot more explanations to be found and even for WoW - informations on PvE, Questing, PetBattles etc. are a lot more accesible than for PvP. I love what Vanguards is doing when playing with Johnny for example. I think top players doing games with beginners and explaining them the game would be very entertaining, too.

Agreed it's not WoW specific. But if you look at teamliquid.net for example there are a lot more explanations to be found and even for WoW - informations on PvE, Questing, PetBattles etc. are a lot more accesible than for PvP. I love what Vanguards is doing when playing with Johnny for example. I think top players doing games with beginners and explaining them the game would be very entertaining, too.

i generally try to help people whenever they whisper me, but many players do have lives outside of wow. therefore they may just not want to be bothered when they finally do get whispers in-game. personally i have no problems with writing warlock guides etc for free as i enjoy helping new players. although, sometimes i too do not respond to whispers when im busy with something. nevertheless, i am not sure just how many low-rated/new players really visit AJ or the likes. many of them seem to just watch twitch and receive skewed views of the game.

According to Quantcast 20-40k different people visit AJ everyday. Not sure if these numbers are reliable but it's more than we think. Just for comparision: More people read AJ than read Elitist Jerks.

Elitist Jerks is not anything worth comparing to though, they dont even keep their guides up to date anymore thats how dead that site is

And on the picking up new players part. I've only ever had bad experiences with it being called an arrogant fuck because i'm obviously not tunnel-visioned like newcomers will be or because i obsess about figuring out how to win after a loss >.>
This has happened to me with many Moba/RTS/FPS top end players :|

@Cameronlol, fuck 1% cutoff, that'd be making even more of a joke out of the glad title, if anything dump it to 0,2% and make it something special again! I'd love to see a lower cut-off + regionwide battlegroups.

Edited by McMick1137, 25 March 2013 - 10:45 AM.

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@Cameronlol, fuck 1% cutoff, that'd be making even more of a joke out of the glad title, if anything dump it to 0,2% and make it something special again! I'd love to see a lower cut-off + regionwide battlegroups.

Do you know what the difference between Rank 1, regular Glad, and Rank 1 duelist is these days? A person's willingness to relax their ethics.

One might even say it's always been that way, but the community seems way more scummy now than it did before Cata was released. Personally I think that expansion ruined the game, and the drop from 12 million subs to 9 million would show that many people agree with me.

I think some of the damage caused in Cata has been repaired with MoP, but I don't know if they'll ever really get back to where the game was for S1-8 when arena participation seemed much higher.

I don't think having more traffic than EJ means anything at all. EJ is completely boring and pretty much a forum for turbo PvE nerds who discuss whether a spell does 1 damage less or more for a whole year. AJ has more visitors because people come, take a look at the thread names, open one maybe and then go again. Hardly any of the visitors post. It's the internet, you know? People 'browse' pages all the time when they are bored, doesn't mean they have to be dedicated readers.

EJ is dead since Cataclysm, at least as a guide source it used to be for PvE back in TBC and WotLK. The only visitors left over there are community members. Also, EJ only had ultra strict moderation in the class forums.

EJ is dead since Cataclysm, at least as a guide source it used to be for PvE back in TBC and WotLK. The only visitors left over there are community members. Also, EJ only had ultra strict moderation in the class forums.